Twelve-year-old Olive, an only child who lives with her high-powered lawyer-mother in a ramshackle house at the beach in Australia, does not fit in at the Joanne d'Arc School for Girls, so when her best friend drops her for a more popular girl and Olive suddenly meets her own, more confident twin sister, the two of them go in search of their long-lost father.
Contents
Chicken loaf and chaos -- Pleasing Mathilda -- Pressed lips and proper mums -- Metal-detecting -- Ditched -- Then dumped -- The twenty-second day of the month -- Curiouser and curiouser -- Crime and in-tu-ition -- The 'I' in we -- Plankton or krill -- Origami massacre -- Bury him -- History-shuffle -- Yellow peril -- A cut and a clue -- Square one -- Back to square one -- The Port Fairy find -- Changing places -- The salami vegetarian -- May Day -- A hobbit, but a talented hobbit -- Upwardly mobile -- Tripping through the Garden State by rail and road -- Road -- A map for living -- The Hon. and the SAG -- Edges that would never be straight -- Daughters of Mog -- Silvery moon -- Lost and found -- The Pip in Olive -- Footprints tall.